Cops search for evidence in Derby shooting

By STAFF REPORTS

Published 8:18 pm, Monday, August 31, 2009

DERBY "" Derby police detectives this morning resumed their search for evidence from yesterday's incident in which a man was shot several times by one of three men after a car accident on Elm Street.

Investigators believe that the shooting "may have been something more than a car crash gone bad," according to police Lt. Salvatore Frosceno.

"That hasn't come out from the investigators yet, but there may be more to this than what meets the eye," he said

Frosceno said that the three suspects may have dropped evidence as they ran from police. The wooded area near the railroad tracks was searched last night until darkness. "There's quite a bit of terrain to cover," Frosceno said this morning.

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The victim, Kierron Stanley, 34, of Ansonia, is still alive this morning at Yale-New Haven Hospital, police said, although the hospital could not confirm his condition. He was driving a GMC sport utility vehicle which collided with a Ford Crown Victoria at the corner of Elm and Chapel streets.

After the crash, someone in the Ford got out and shot the driver of the GMC several times, police said. All three men in the Ford then fled the area, police said, heading for the nearby Metro North tracks, but running in different directions.

A police officer and detective were in the neighborhood on unrelated business when the crime occurred, and began the chase after they heard the car crash and the subsequent gunshots.

Arrested were Robert Smith, 28, of Lester Street, Ansonia; Stephen Cook, 28, of Carlson Street, New Britain, and Daycus Bailey, 26, of Olson Drive, Ansonia. They were charged with first-degree assault with a firearm and conspiracy, Frosceno said.